Atomizer



A. M. HOLMES.

ATOMIZER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.27, 1919.

PatentedAug. 24,1920.

I N VEN TOR.

A TTORNEY.

PATENT OFFICE.

ANDERSQN MANSFIELD HOLMES, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIG-NOR,

AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 3F FIFTEEN TEEN ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO ANNIE L. OSCAR I. WOODLEY, EIGEITEEN 0LT ill-.1113" NDREDTI-IS TG WILLIAM BY DIRECT SMITH, FIF- NINETEEN ONE-HUNDREDTI-IS TO F. METCALF, AND

ONE-I-IUNDREDTHS TO MARIE FISK,

THIRTY-THREE ONE-HUNDREDTI-Zg TO .TJ'D'l/VARID L. TOR'SGI-I.

ATOMIZER.

Application filed August 27, 1919.

To all (072/0770 it may concern:

Be it known that I, Auonusou MANsFIELD liomms, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Atomizers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in atomizer-s, and has for its object to provide a simple and convenient apparatus so constructed and arranged that the medicine to be inhaled by the patient will be discharged therefrom in the form of a cool relatively dry vapor.

The invention consists ot the novel construction and arrangement of the parts and combination oi parts hereinafter more fully set forth in the following specification and pointed out in detail in the appended claims.

in th accompanying drawing-- lfigure l i, a side elevation '01 a structure embodying my invention.

F 1g. 2 is a vertical. longitudinal section of Fig. 1 through its medial plane.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the water reservoir.

Fig. is a vertical section on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

ing 1 near the top thereof and having a stop cock to open or close communication with said reservoir 2 The said reservoir 2 is also provided as best seen in F at, with a water pipe 6 which extends down to the bottom of the said. tank and an air pipe 7 which projects through the top oi? said tank. The pipes 6 and 7 project up through the top of the easing 1, are provided, the pipe 6 with a valve 3 and the pipe 7 with a valve 9, and are joined by a union 10 from which latter the pipe .11. leads to the boiler 3. The boiler 3 is also connected with the condensing chamber Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920. Serial No. 320,109.

12 by the pipe 30 through which the steam from the boiler 3 passes to the condensing chamber 12, which connects with asecond condensing chamber 13 by a pipe 1% which has one end open near the top of the chamber 12 and the other end extending down close to the bottom of the chamber 13. The said condensing chamber 13 is provided with an outlet pipe 15 near the top thereof and having a discharge nozzle 16 on its outer end, which causes the vapor to be discharged in the form of a spray and also causes a pressure in the condensing chambers 12 and 13. The said condensing chamber 13 is provided with excelsior, or other suitable material, which holds in its pores and upon its surface the medicine that is supplied to said chamber 13 through the pipe 17 at the top thereof, thereby preventing the medicine from dropping down into the water of condensation at the bottom of the chamber 13 andalso permitting a more perfect absorption of the medicine by the steam as it passes up through said excelsior. The condensing chamber 12 is provided with a discharge pipe 18 which has its lower end terminating near the bottom of the chamber 12 and its upper end projecting throughthe casing 1 near the top thereof and provided with a valve 19 to open and close said pipe. The water of condensation in chamber 12 is discharged through said pipe 13 at any time while the apparatus is in operation by simply opening the valve 19 as there is a steam pressure within the apparatus suiiicient to cause said discharge owing to the smallness of the discharge nozzle 16. The water of condensation that collects in the chamber 13 will be drawn into chamber 12 through the pipe 1st whenever the heater 20 is removed or its flame is extinguished, as vacuum will be created in said chamber 12, which causes a suction through said pipe 14. The tank 2 is filled throitigh the pipe 1 by the use of the tunnel 21 which is adjustable on the rod 22 and is adapted to be swung about the axis of said rod so that it will aline with the upper end of the pipe st. The boiler 3 is held by an arm 23 which latter is adjustable on the rod 29%. The water is supplied to the boiler 3 from the tank 2 by forcing air through the pipe 1 to said tank 2 which causes the water to flow up through the pipe 6 boiler 3. If it be desired to force air into said boiler 3*to create a pressure therein, the

valve 8 is closed and valve 9 opened which allows airto pass from the tank 2 through the pipe 7 union 10 and pipe 11 to the boiler 3. Between the condensing chambers 12 and 13 is a gasolene chamber 25 provided with a V pipe 26 which projects through the side of the casing 1 and has its inner end terminating just below the top of said gasolene chamber and a pipe 27 which has its lower end projecting down to near the through the side of the casing I. Said pipes 26 and 27 are provided respectively with valves 28 and 29 and are connected by a union 31 to the'pipe'32 which latter leads to ithe heater 20. The gasolene is supplied to the chamber 25 through the pipe 83. When it is desired to fill the heater from-the putank the valve 29 is opened and air is 'iiorcedthrough pipe 33 by a rubber bulb or a other suitable device to the tank 25 and the pressure therein will cause the gasolene to fiow' through the pipe '27 and pipe 32 to the heater 20. 'l/Vhen it is desired to cause a ipressurein the heater 20,'va1ve 29 is closed "and valve 28 opened and air is then forced through the 'pipe33 to the chamber 25 from which it passes through the pipe 26 and pipe 32tothe heater-20. The valve 28 is a three- 7 way valve so that the air in the chamber 25 can be discharged through the valve 28 to theatmosphere when desired.

will be'seen' from the foregoing that as "the :steam generated in the boiler passes through the apparatus and expands therein,

its temperature isreduced and muchof its moisture is precipitated so that it enters chamber v13 in a relatively dry condition.

As it :iinally passes through the chamber 13 it: takes up:more or less of themedica-ment held by the excelsior or other body, and issuing from the-nozzle 16 under pressure, as-

sumes the form of a fine spray or vapor. In

and through the pipe 11 to the bottom of the t-gaso lene chamber 25 and also projects 15 boiler,

passing through the external air and to a distance of" from two to three feet from the nozzle 16, it is further cooled, parts with most ofitsj remaining water content, and becomes arelatively'drymedicated vapor of temperature lower'than that of the surrounding atmosphere.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: v V V l. Anatomizer comprising a bO1lBI',2L condensing chamber having communicat on with said boiler, a pipe within said condensing chamber having one end terminating near the bottom and the other end aro'ectinm u u a through the wall of said condensing chamber near the top thereof, a secondcondensing chamber having communication with the "first-named condensingchamber, and an outcondensing chamber having communication with the first-named condensing chamber andhaving an inlet and an outlet, and a nozzle connected to said outlet.

8. f n-atomizer comprising a boiler, a heater for said boiler, a condensing pipe within said chamber having one end terminating near the bottom densing chamber near the top thereof, a second condensing chamber having communica- 1 tion with the first-named condensing chanr. ber, and an outlet for said second condensing chamber and having a nozzle secured thereto.

' In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

nf uiinsrinnn HOLMES.

chamber having communication with said boiler, a

and the otherend projecting throughthe wall'of said 'con-: 

